E-mail Newsletter

Tax Facts provides tax information for citizens, policy analysts, legislators, and the press. Data are compiled from a variety of sources, including the Urban Institute, Brookings Institution, Internal Revenue Service, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Congressional Budget Office, the Department of the Treasury, the Federation of Tax Administrators, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Please attribute data to the source organization listed beneath each table, and not the Tax Policy Center exclusively.

OverviewInformation about the composition of taxes, distribution of tax burden, and changes in tax burden over time.